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HWDRIVE A6AIIISTGSRUIS
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>, N. CT.. MONDAY. AUGUST 13 TO17 VOL,90—Ma 74
TWEITY-TIREE ARE KILLED
INCLUDING NINE WOMEN AND
SIX CHILDREN—FBTY ARE,
INJURED BY BOMBS.
struck hard blows at their
and iflrre been rewarded
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a London. Aug. 12.-^wenty-three
Germans in Flanders" *e,r3°n8- '"eluding nine women and
six children, were killed and 50 per-sons
were injured at South End, in
Essex, forty miles east of London,
by bombs dropped today by German
raiders, says an official statement is-sued
tonight.
Considerable damage to property
was caused at South End by the near-ly
40 bombs dropped upon the town.
Two men were injured at Rochford,
but four bombs dropped on Margate,
in Kent, did little damage. The lat-est
statement follows:
"Enemy raiders caused consider-able
damage at South End, where
they dropped about 40 bombs. The
casualties thus far reported are:
"Killed eight men. nine women,
six children. About 50 people were
injured.
"At Rochford two men were injur-ed,
but no damage is reported. At
Margate four bombs were dropped,
uninhabited house was demolished,
but there were no casualties."
,,.■ liuppreclit. of Bavaria.
. lighting has occurred only
i sectors it seems evident
. ,-a.y artillery duels in
,;> along the front from
-., t!:e Franco-Belgian bor-
, forerunners of a resump-
.. sis ;i!iied offensive which
i;i ; !i:e accompanying mire
in..is; m its inception more
eastward from the sector
tne party dawn of Friday
Marshal Haig's men took for
■ il the German first line
uK'-lons e*»t nt Hooge between Fre-
P". .rg aa.i the Ypres-Menin road,
f ,.:im ■..,• village of Westhoek,
■m in their entirety, not-the
usual counter-at-the
Germans un-det
.n
an: iieiii
wit:-.stan !:'•'-
„.;-< launched
extremely heavy barrage fire,
iirth near Bixsrhoote and
Laniwarck the French troops have
capnred several farms held by the
Cer-.ians an.i also have taken a num-ber
■;' mac'.-lne guna from them.
W/ii> iiie>e gains are character-ize;
as '"slight" they nevertheless are
sn'-.ier forward step eastward to-
■ iri the iVtenl-Lille railroad to-wri
wliicii liie British drive from
Ho^e alsn is pointed.
T.e Canadians lying in their
",•: , •- al r!;e doorstep of Lens and
ti« British forces holding trenches
font. nf I he famous Vimp Ridge are
ffrrhia :n fi r intensive shelling from,
the Herman-,
fi ■ ilia n»»lected front near
St. J»en;:n. i:ie Germans have de-
Hvered a surprise attack of consider-abit
proporti ins. but were unsuccess-
(u: n saining grounds anywhere ex-
Kn< .' epvoral weak points in the
ren:-r if t!:e F'renrh line. Otherwise
the ir» of (ieneral Petain's men put
flon-yi ■}>■■ sally. Inflicting consider-abir
ca<na!':es on the Germans.
Likov:— along tiie Aisne front the
Gerr.ians nave delivered onslaughts
a?a:ast t!t« French, but here also
the: mei with the same result that
Vi; ra.irki'i tlie previous attempts of
l> ti-rnian crown prince^to pierce
lin^s -defeat. At several
Herman's managed to
make ;'.•:; way into isolated trench-
■ met death later in hand-
::ii or were captured.
: the front in France lit-moment
is taking
'ialicia. Bukowina
th« ^reiicli
points th»
tc-. .ri'i • z\
Me 'gbtlns of
V'li ■■ ■••'.•;,• ;,.
an'
Ro
'W -r» Moldavia. In all these
•• Germans and Austro-H".:
i?;i.•;;,»>- declared bv the
er'.in r.BfSle. e to be continuing
'"": --:: - .southeast of Czerno-
" ■"■;-iial of Bukovvina. the
Cerr.ian> . iv.- penetrated the Rus-aaa
front!."- positions and further
■ine with their allies, they
in* tak»n height positions between
be Trot ;- ,■-.,] putan vaiieyS, and in
"Idavia, in the region of
" thrown their forces
iiitza river on a wide
French Airmen Raid an Important
German City.
Paris, Aug. 12.—Two French avia-tors
yesterday dropped bombs on
Frankfort-on-the-Main, one of the
most important cities of the German
empire, having a population of more
than 300,000. A French official state-ment
announcing the raid says it was
in retaliation for the German aerial'
bombardment of Nancy and the re-gion
north of Paris.
SEVERAL TONS OF BOMBS
DROPPED OX AIRDROME
London, Aug. 11.—British naval
airplanes on Thursday night dropped
several tons of bombs on the German
airdrome in the Belgian town of
Ghistelles, on the Zuidweg~e railway
sidings and on the Throurout rail-way
junction, the British admiralty
announced today. On Friday after-noon
the British airmen dropped
bombs on the German airdrome at
Sparappelhoek.
The admiralty statement says:
Several tons of bombs were drop-ped
by the royal naval air service
Thursday night on the Ghistelles
airdrome, on the Zuidwege railway-siding
and on the Thourout railway
junction. Dense clouds of smoke
were caused at Zuidwege. The rail-way
junction at Thourout also was
attacked by gunfire from the air.
"On Friday afternoon a further
bombing raid was carried out on the
airdome at Sparappelhoek. All our
machines returned safely."
ANOTHER GERMAN SUBMARINE
SUNK BV A BBITLSH VESSEL.
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* i' is known that the
"T'S forged forward in the
protecting barrage from
".• and achieved most of
'v°« in a remarkably short
I.-
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undoubtedly will counter-
•"•' immediately in an at-
««in these important posi-th*
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'■ s disastrous day for
»«r service, which again
,:"5r a long spell of bad
precluded observation.
airplanes were crashed
''"other was driven
'" 'Olltrol.
"an sausage observation
• had a bad time. Two
r" destroyed and four
'"tag smoke, were forced
a flabby condition.
An Atlantic Port, Aug. 12.—An-other
German submarine has been
sunk by the guns of a merchantman,
if the gunners of a British freighter
which arrived here today are correct
in their assumption that three shots
which struck an undersea boat off
Brest. France, sent her to the bot-tom.
The Britisher encountered the
submarine on her last outward trip
from this port.
One shell destroyed the periscope.
The second and third were followed
by an explosion and the submarine
disappeared. The gunners were con-fident
that the submarine went down
involuntarily.
Ruvso-Riiuianiaii Force* Captnre Ma-chine
Guns.
London, Aug. 10.—Russian and
Rumanian troops repulsed er.emy at-tacks
in the Trotus valle/ an.! then
launcl-ed vigorous counterattacks
whtGh gained them prisoners and
captured machine guns, according to
an official statement Issued today ny
the Rumanian war office.
American Red Cross to Care For Ger-mans.
Washington, Aug. 10.—A state-ment
making It clear that the Ameri-can
Red Cross will not neg.ect Ger-man
wounded, or prisoners and wil
welcome co-operation fro-n Ameri-ere
hit by British air- cans of German origin, was author-
'-ree more were forced ized i^night by Chairman Davison,
" - range fire from the oi the Red Cr089 war council.
Po;nr
'•an artillery continues to throughout yesterday. German gun-
'•ritisli positions before ners were especially active along the
i -iist of Vimy Ridge and whole British front from Nieuport to
- were heavily shelled the southern extremity of the line.
TIB LDCKY m mm
WKJAL BOARD FOR DIVISION
NUMBER ONE HAS FINISHED
THE EXAMINATIONS.
The local board for division No. 1
which has jurisdiction over the
young men of rural Guilford has fin-ished
with its physical examinations
of the first quota of 152 men. Out
of the 152 notified to appear before
the board only 15 were absent at
roll call, and most of those abseat
are to be accounted for satisfactorily
a3 already having volunteered. or
else as having been ordered to ap-pear
elsewhere for physical examina-tions.
Out of the 137 examined 33
young men were discharged as phy-sically
unfit for military service.
Most every one not so discharged an-nounced
their intention of asking for
an exemption. Those who will be
exempted by the local board and
those accepted for service by the
board, will no doubt know their fate
within ten days. From what can be
learned now it seems to be the in-tention
of the government to carry
on appeal to the district board all the
cases of those exempted by the local
board on the grounds that they have
dependents. It is expected that Mr.
Charles A. Hines will be entrusted
by the government with the task of
taking appeals in such cases.
A list of those physically unfit and
discharged and of those found physi-cally
fit for service is given below.
Those physically incapacitated
were:
Gould Richardson. Ceo Burgess.
Henry H. Haithcock. Lacy Wagoner.
Joseph W. Noah. Walter K. Hemp-hill.
C. Leton Thomas. John Huff.
Gilbert R. Doggett. Clifton F. Fryar.
Alf Martin. Lester E. Hackett. Mar-tin
L. Pegg. Perce C. Greeson, Ray
Franklin Perdue. Lester L. May.
John P. Clapp. William Byrd Vaughn
Henry C. Tucker. Alfred M. Hicks.
Arthur Cobb. Julius Thacker, Wil-liam
A. Lee. Julius Mayes. Henry L.
Heath. Clayton Reeee .Denny M. In-gold.
Olap L. Fentress, Albert S. Mc-
Adoo. Arthur Highflll. Charles J. Cal-houn
and Arch Satterfield.
Those postponed for judgment
were as follows:
Russell Blackburn, on account of
recent operation, and William Cicero
Oaks, on account oi an injury.
The men who passed the examina-tions
follow:
Harrison Foust, Henry C. Smith.
Clarence F. Tucker, Joseph L. Ma-tier,
Everett L. Apple. Luther Yow.
Perry C. Clapp. William Guy. Milton
Noble. John D. Burnsides. M. W.
Richardson. James W. Pegg. H. Her-bin.
Ed. McCain. Ira Kirkman. James
Jeffreys. Luther McGibbony. W. E.
Truitt. Harrison Apple. Otis B. Cable,
Victor M. Johnson. Shelton GrifP.6,
Charles G. Clapp. John McCulloch.
Francis D. Richardson. Harper Law.
Wilbert F. Minor. Charles Coley, Roy
Anderson. Pinkney Gordon, William
Arthur Fryar, Clarence O. Hutton,
Arthur Crutchfield, Sidney S. Robin-son,
Arthur B. Marley, Harrison
Rumbley. Samuel Waynick. Charlie
F. Shore. Willard R. Atkins. Jack R.
Lowe, Ernest Pearson. William T.
Dixon, Robert S. Dick, James A.
Poole. Riley Shoe, Sam Moore. Jacob
Tickle. Charles A. Coble, William W.
Pegg, Manish In man, David C. More-head.
Ernest C. Shaw. Jesse E. Wade.
Henry Enoch, Mayfield Vanhook.
Frank 'Cant, John K. Newman. Rob-ert
A. Hawkins. David A. Gray. Clyde
L. Waynick. Bud Greeson, Lawrence
Gilmer Ward, Banner W. Key, Wil-liam
D. Johnson, George F. Foots,
W. L. Ballard. Jesse L. Coitrane.
Clay D. Brittain, J. B. Gant. Elmer
F. Fishel, Samuel Thompson. Wal-ter
Duggins, Robert Rumbley. Rufus
A. Ingold. Oliver G. Friddle. Earl W.
Jones, Martin E. Frazier, Robert F.
Dean, Olin B. Belk, Dorsey L. Nance,
Galther M. Kellum. Cornelius Pier-man,
George Holman. James R.
Smith. Walter G. Coble, Galther C.
Welker, Charles G. Holy. Rufus
Foust, William B. Gray, Walter A.
Coble, Charles W. Coble, Edwin J.
Shepherd. Cyrus A. Brown, Thomas
R. Styers. Eugene Brown, Arlindo
Leonard. William L. Smith, Cecil C.
Field, Clyde G. Idol, Willie Sapp'and
Charles Clapp.
GIW4IS iRIBOMtt BACK
THE CROWN PRINCE MADE SIX
ATTEMPTS TO REGAIN LOST
GROUND.
London. Aug. 11.—Six times the
Bavarian crown prince sent his in-fantry
legion through the mud and
blood of the Flanders battlefield last
night to re-con-juer the lines lost to
the British yesterday. Six times the
teutons crashed against a wall of
steel and then they turned back in
flight, scattered and beaten.
"We hold all our positions." Sir
Douglas Haig reported in his day bul-letin,
"and in addition have gained
further ground in the neighborhood
of the Ypres-Menin road."
Eerlin's version U one of victory.
The British, aserts the German high
command, were beaten off every-where.
Of the six teuton counter-at-tacks
there is no mention. It is con-ceded
by the German war office, how-ever,
that French assaults further
south, on the St. Quentin front, were
"only partially successful." Of this
battle Paris reports that appreciable
progress was made by the poilus in
the region of Fayet. They wrested
from the crown prince's troops most
of the trench elements lost to them
Thursday and Friday. Below Laon.
also the French were victorious.
They recaptured in a brilliant charge
an important trench south of Allies
that had been previously snatched
from them in one oi the crown
prince's furious onslaughts.
In the Champagne. Paris admits
the Germans succeeded In gaining
fifty yards of a French trench. Their
initial momentum carried them
through on a much farther and wider
front, but Petain's men came back in
an embittered counter attack which
cleared all except the tiny strip of in-vaders.
Berlin reported the baegine of
nineteen entente airplanes and two
captive balloons in yesterday's fight-ing.
Most of the machines were
brought down in Flanders.
London. Aug. 11.—Optimism with
regajd-to the Russo-Rumanian situ-ation
was revived today by a official
report from Petrograd reporting sev-eral
brilliant local successes of King
Ferdinand's troops and their Musco-vite
allies.
Four . hundred prisoners were
taken by them in the southern part
of the Bukowina where they effec-tively
stopped the teuton advance.
to the southwest of Brody. in north-eastern
Galicia. Prince Leopold, of
Bavaria, also met a check. A vigor-ous
Austro-German drive in the sec-tor
of Zarkow was stifled in its in-cipiency.
the teutons suffering heavy
losses according to the Russian war
office.
But gloomy news came from the
vital sector of the Rumanian front
where Mackensen is sweeping north-ward
to invade Moldavia and cut off
/arge Russo-Rumanian forces. Petro-grad
admitted a retreat for a dls-ance
of three miles southwest of Ok-na
and conceded also that the Russo-
Rumanian forces were thrown back
over the Suchitzar river west of the
Focshanit railroad. To the east of
that line the Austro-German troops
were defeated, losing 300 officers and
men in prisoners.
■ft "SAMMIES" FOR RUSSIA
A FEW THOUSAND AMERICAN'S
WOULD HAVE LITTLE EFFECT
ON THE 10.0O0.000 RUSSIANS.
'THE AMERICAN EAGLE"
IS CITED BY FRENCH.
Paris, Aug. 10.—Lieut. William
Thaw, of Pittsburgh, who is popu-larly
known in France as "The Amer-ican
Eagle," has again received a
citation. It reads:
"Lieutenant Thaw, who returned
to the front after recovering from a
severe wound, has never ceased to
give an example of courage and en-terprise.
He showed intelligent in-itiative
during a German attack by
landing in his airplane near a group
of French troops and giving them in-formation
that he had obtained by
flying low over the enemy's position.
This information enabled our troops
to avoid a possible surprise. Lieuten-ant
Thaw brought down an enemy
aviator on April 26 of this year, that
being his second aerial victory."
ATTEMPT TO BREAK RUSSIAN-LINE
PROVED TO BE FAILURE.
Petrograd. Aug. 11.—The Austro-
German attempt to break the Rus-sian
line near Zarkov, southwest of
Brody. northeastern Galicia. met
with complete failure, says the offi-cial
statement from the war office
today. Elsewhere on the front there
has been little activity except in Ru-mania.
In the upper Bobra valley the Rus-sians
were driven back slightly
southwest of Ocna, in Rumania, near
the Transylvania border, stubborn
fighting took .place Thursday, the
Rumanians being forced to retire
I Kansas City, Aug. 10.—Dr. C. W. somewhat. The Austro-German of-
Soldicrs Exempted From PoU Tax. [ Maynard, a bacteriologist of Pueblo, tensive around Fokshani forced the
Sanford, Aug. 11.—The Lee coun- Colo., today notified Fred Robertson, [ Russians to retire across the Such-ty
commissioners at their meeting United States district attorney of (itza, but much heavy fighting has oc-this
week passed an order exempt-, Kansas, at Kansas City, Kan., that he ' curred there, especially east of the
ing from poH tax all who enter the | had found tetanus germs ln a brand . railway running north of Fokshani
service of their country as soldiers of court plaster circulated in Colo- where 300 teutonic prisoners were
during the term of the war. rade. I taken.
Poisoned Plaster Found in Colorado.
Washington. Aug. 10.—'Emphatic
disapproval of the suggestion that
American troops be sent to the east-ern
front was brought home by all
except one of the members of the
American mission to Russia.
It was authoritatively stated to-night
that Charles Edward Russell
is the only commissioner who be-lieves
it desirable to put soldiers
from the United States in Russia and
chat the others are convinced that
their presence would be detrimental
rather than helpful to the armies of
the new democracy.
Elihu Root and his associates on
the mission lunched with Secretary
Lansing today and told him more of
their experiences and conclusions.
Their written report, submitted to
President Wilson yesterday probably
will not be made public.
Organization and encouragement
and not men, it was explained to-night,
are Russia's needs in the opin-ion
of the majority of the commis-sioners.
With ten million men un-der
arms, they think Russia does not
need a few thousand strange soldiers.
Speaking an unfamiliar tongue,
drawing better pay and eating better
food than her own men.
Lending assistance to the men now
in the field is the duty of this country
the commissioners feel. Rolling stock
for the rialroads to carry supplies
and equipment to the native soldiers
and the supplies themselves are the
real requirements and they will
grow. Both Russian and Rumanian
forces will need supplies and equip-ment
worse next winter than they
do today and the transportation
problems then will be greater also.
Of the greatest importance the
-ommissioners say Is constant en-couragement
from citizens and the
newspapers of the United States. An-ti-
American propagandists, headed
by former residents of this country
and now financed by German inoney
ire seeking to paint Americans in
Che blackest shade and thus discour-age
Russians from accepting their
good offices.
The story of the origin of the ex-traordinary
propaganda is vouched
for by every member of the commis-sion.
Shortly after the outbreak of
the revolution, it is declared, the pro-pagandists,
composed chiefly of so-
-ialists favorable to abolishing all
present form of government and es-tablishing
without delay rule by the
brotherhood of man, returned to
their native land and began berating
the United States and its people.
Germans, quick to see the advant-age
of controlling these agitators, be-gan
supplying them with money and
today flush with wealth, they are.go-ing
through Russia spreading the
most vicious canards.
One of the commissioners, discus-sing
these men tonight, said he could
only explain their attitude before
coming into German money by their
never having become an integral part
of the United States citizenry. Many
of them, it is understood lived in the
congested foreign sections of New
York and seldom came in contact
with American citizens.
While the _propagandist« efforts
are being discounted now that Rus-sia
is becoming better organized,
they have instilled dangerous seeds
in the simple minds of many Rus-sians.
IN CONTROL OF FHD SOPPlT
PRESIDENT SIGNS THE SURVBT
AND REGULATORY BrLLS AND
NAMES HOOVER.
Washington, Aug. 10.—The Amer-ican
government today assumed con-trol
of the country's food supply with
the signing by President Wilson ot
the administration food survey and
regulatory bills.
Formal announcement of Herbert
Hoover's appointment as food admin-istrator
was made at the White
House soon after the measures were
approved and tonight Mr. Hoover set
forth the aims of the food adminis-tration
in a statement declaring its
purpose will be to stabilize and not
to disturb conditions.
Every effort will be made to cor-rect
price abuses made possible by
abnormal times, Mr. Hoover said, but
drastic measures will not be attempt-ed
until it is seen the purposes of
the administration cannot be accom-plished
through constructive co-ope-ration
with food producing and dis-tributing
industries.
The very existence ot correctivo
powers, Mr. Hoover ..declares, will
tend to check speculation and price
inflation.
The two measures signed today
give the government sweeping war
time powers. The regulatory bill is
designed to put food distribution un-der
direct government supervision
and a provision added as an amend-ment
extends an even more drastfo
government control over coal and
other fuels, including the power to
fix prices and authorizing the govern-ment
operation of mines. The sur-vey
bill is intended to encourage pro-duction
and gives the governmei.t
authority to keep up a continuous
census of the amount of foodstuffs in
the United States. It will be admin-istered
by the department of agricul-ture.
Both the food administration'"a?d
the agriculture department have
been ready since long before the bills
were passed to go ahead with the
work. The food administrator has
assembled a staff and already enlist-ing
the country's women in a house-hold
saving campaign. Meanwhile,
the federal trade commission, au-thorized
some time ago to conduct
an investigationTnto food prices sribh
special reference to anti-trust law
violations, is gathering information
which it will turn over to the two
agencies and to the department of
justice.
The first move to the food admin-istration
will be to bring about
changes in the system of distributing
wheat and in the manufacture and
sale of flour and bread. It will take
up next the production ot meat and
dairy foods. The trade commission
has Investigators now in the flour
mills and in the meat packing
houses.
FLAG IS CAPTURED •
BY ITALIAN MONKEY.
Rome. Italy, July 19 (by mail).—
.Monkeys can go "over the top" of a
battle trench as well as scale a hand
organ. Comes a tale from battle
rocked Carso in the Alps where a
monkey captured the Austrian colors
unaided. Bebe was the pet of an
Italian captain. Holding the line
against the Austrian*, the captain's
command faced an enemy position
from the top of which the Austrian
standard constantly flew.
Italian riflemen repeatedly brought
it down, but up it came again. Bebe's
master went out in the dead of night
to bring back the flag. The monkey
went with him. As the captain clear-ed
the1 last strand of barbed wire be-low
the Austrian parapet Bebe flash-ed
like a wraith over the top, tore
the flag from its staff and scooted
back. Both returned to the Italian
fnes safely. i
PHYSICIANS REPORT
MR. TAFT BETTER.
Clay Center. Kan.. Aug. 10.—Con-dition
of William Howard Taft, who
has been HI here since last Monday,
was improved today, according to his
physician. Dr. H. F. Morgan, for the
first time ln three days the ex-presi-dent
was given food. He had previ-ously
refused to eat. asking that he
be allowed rest and quiet. He is suf-fering
from intestinal trouble. "I
can't say the danger mark is pass-ed/'
said Dr. Morgan. "That would
not be exactly correct. However, I
don't think that at any time them
has been any immediate danger."
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TWEITY-TIREE ARE KILLED
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SIX CHILDREN—FBTY ARE,
INJURED BY BOMBS.
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Germans in Flanders" *e,r3°n8- '"eluding nine women and
six children, were killed and 50 per-sons
were injured at South End, in
Essex, forty miles east of London,
by bombs dropped today by German
raiders, says an official statement is-sued
tonight.
Considerable damage to property
was caused at South End by the near-ly
40 bombs dropped upon the town.
Two men were injured at Rochford,
but four bombs dropped on Margate,
in Kent, did little damage. The lat-est
statement follows:
"Enemy raiders caused consider-able
damage at South End, where
they dropped about 40 bombs. The
casualties thus far reported are:
"Killed eight men. nine women,
six children. About 50 people were
injured.
"At Rochford two men were injur-ed,
but no damage is reported. At
Margate four bombs were dropped,
uninhabited house was demolished,
but there were no casualties."
,,.■ liuppreclit. of Bavaria.
. lighting has occurred only
i sectors it seems evident
. ,-a.y artillery duels in
,;> along the front from
-., t!:e Franco-Belgian bor-
, forerunners of a resump-
.. sis ;i!iied offensive which
i;i ; !i:e accompanying mire
in..is; m its inception more
eastward from the sector
tne party dawn of Friday
Marshal Haig's men took for
■ il the German first line
uK'-lons e*»t nt Hooge between Fre-
P". .rg aa.i the Ypres-Menin road,
f ,.:im ■..,• village of Westhoek,
■m in their entirety, not-the
usual counter-at-the
Germans un-det
.n
an: iieiii
wit:-.stan !:'•'-
„.;-< launched
extremely heavy barrage fire,
iirth near Bixsrhoote and
Laniwarck the French troops have
capnred several farms held by the
Cer-.ians an.i also have taken a num-ber
■;' mac'.-lne guna from them.
W/ii> iiie>e gains are character-ize;
as '"slight" they nevertheless are
sn'-.ier forward step eastward to-
■ iri the iVtenl-Lille railroad to-wri
wliicii liie British drive from
Ho^e alsn is pointed.
T.e Canadians lying in their
",•: , •- al r!;e doorstep of Lens and
ti« British forces holding trenches
font. nf I he famous Vimp Ridge are
ffrrhia :n fi r intensive shelling from,
the Herman-,
fi ■ ilia n»»lected front near
St. J»en;:n. i:ie Germans have de-
Hvered a surprise attack of consider-abit
proporti ins. but were unsuccess-
(u: n saining grounds anywhere ex-
Kn< .' epvoral weak points in the
ren:-r if t!:e F'renrh line. Otherwise
the ir» of (ieneral Petain's men put
flon-yi ■}>■■ sally. Inflicting consider-abir
ca ti-rnian crown prince^to pierce
lin^s -defeat. At several
Herman's managed to
make ;'.•:; way into isolated trench-
■ met death later in hand-
::ii or were captured.
: the front in France lit-moment
is taking
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i?;i.•;;,»>- declared bv the
er'.in r.BfSle. e to be continuing
'"": --:: - .southeast of Czerno-
" ■"■;-iial of Bukovvina. the
Cerr.ian> . iv.- penetrated the Rus-aaa
front!."- positions and further
■ine with their allies, they
in* tak»n height positions between
be Trot ;- ,■-.,] putan vaiieyS, and in
"Idavia, in the region of
" thrown their forces
iiitza river on a wide
French Airmen Raid an Important
German City.
Paris, Aug. 12.—Two French avia-tors
yesterday dropped bombs on
Frankfort-on-the-Main, one of the
most important cities of the German
empire, having a population of more
than 300,000. A French official state-ment
announcing the raid says it was
in retaliation for the German aerial'
bombardment of Nancy and the re-gion
north of Paris.
SEVERAL TONS OF BOMBS
DROPPED OX AIRDROME
London, Aug. 11.—British naval
airplanes on Thursday night dropped
several tons of bombs on the German
airdrome in the Belgian town of
Ghistelles, on the Zuidweg~e railway
sidings and on the Throurout rail-way
junction, the British admiralty
announced today. On Friday after-noon
the British airmen dropped
bombs on the German airdrome at
Sparappelhoek.
The admiralty statement says:
Several tons of bombs were drop-ped
by the royal naval air service
Thursday night on the Ghistelles
airdrome, on the Zuidwege railway-siding
and on the Thourout railway
junction. Dense clouds of smoke
were caused at Zuidwege. The rail-way
junction at Thourout also was
attacked by gunfire from the air.
"On Friday afternoon a further
bombing raid was carried out on the
airdome at Sparappelhoek. All our
machines returned safely."
ANOTHER GERMAN SUBMARINE
SUNK BV A BBITLSH VESSEL.
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precluded observation.
airplanes were crashed
''"other was driven
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"an sausage observation
• had a bad time. Two
r" destroyed and four
'"tag smoke, were forced
a flabby condition.
An Atlantic Port, Aug. 12.—An-other
German submarine has been
sunk by the guns of a merchantman,
if the gunners of a British freighter
which arrived here today are correct
in their assumption that three shots
which struck an undersea boat off
Brest. France, sent her to the bot-tom.
The Britisher encountered the
submarine on her last outward trip
from this port.
One shell destroyed the periscope.
The second and third were followed
by an explosion and the submarine
disappeared. The gunners were con-fident
that the submarine went down
involuntarily.
Ruvso-Riiuianiaii Force* Captnre Ma-chine
Guns.
London, Aug. 10.—Russian and
Rumanian troops repulsed er.emy at-tacks
in the Trotus valle/ an.! then
launcl-ed vigorous counterattacks
whtGh gained them prisoners and
captured machine guns, according to
an official statement Issued today ny
the Rumanian war office.
American Red Cross to Care For Ger-mans.
Washington, Aug. 10.—A state-ment
making It clear that the Ameri-can
Red Cross will not neg.ect Ger-man
wounded, or prisoners and wil
welcome co-operation fro-n Ameri-ere
hit by British air- cans of German origin, was author-
'-ree more were forced ized i^night by Chairman Davison,
" - range fire from the oi the Red Cr089 war council.
Po;nr
'•an artillery continues to throughout yesterday. German gun-
'•ritisli positions before ners were especially active along the
i -iist of Vimy Ridge and whole British front from Nieuport to
- were heavily shelled the southern extremity of the line.
TIB LDCKY m mm
WKJAL BOARD FOR DIVISION
NUMBER ONE HAS FINISHED
THE EXAMINATIONS.
The local board for division No. 1
which has jurisdiction over the
young men of rural Guilford has fin-ished
with its physical examinations
of the first quota of 152 men. Out
of the 152 notified to appear before
the board only 15 were absent at
roll call, and most of those abseat
are to be accounted for satisfactorily
a3 already having volunteered. or
else as having been ordered to ap-pear
elsewhere for physical examina-tions.
Out of the 137 examined 33
young men were discharged as phy-sically
unfit for military service.
Most every one not so discharged an-nounced
their intention of asking for
an exemption. Those who will be
exempted by the local board and
those accepted for service by the
board, will no doubt know their fate
within ten days. From what can be
learned now it seems to be the in-tention
of the government to carry
on appeal to the district board all the
cases of those exempted by the local
board on the grounds that they have
dependents. It is expected that Mr.
Charles A. Hines will be entrusted
by the government with the task of
taking appeals in such cases.
A list of those physically unfit and
discharged and of those found physi-cally
fit for service is given below.
Those physically incapacitated
were:
Gould Richardson. Ceo Burgess.
Henry H. Haithcock. Lacy Wagoner.
Joseph W. Noah. Walter K. Hemp-hill.
C. Leton Thomas. John Huff.
Gilbert R. Doggett. Clifton F. Fryar.
Alf Martin. Lester E. Hackett. Mar-tin
L. Pegg. Perce C. Greeson, Ray
Franklin Perdue. Lester L. May.
John P. Clapp. William Byrd Vaughn
Henry C. Tucker. Alfred M. Hicks.
Arthur Cobb. Julius Thacker, Wil-liam
A. Lee. Julius Mayes. Henry L.
Heath. Clayton Reeee .Denny M. In-gold.
Olap L. Fentress, Albert S. Mc-
Adoo. Arthur Highflll. Charles J. Cal-houn
and Arch Satterfield.
Those postponed for judgment
were as follows:
Russell Blackburn, on account of
recent operation, and William Cicero
Oaks, on account oi an injury.
The men who passed the examina-tions
follow:
Harrison Foust, Henry C. Smith.
Clarence F. Tucker, Joseph L. Ma-tier,
Everett L. Apple. Luther Yow.
Perry C. Clapp. William Guy. Milton
Noble. John D. Burnsides. M. W.
Richardson. James W. Pegg. H. Her-bin.
Ed. McCain. Ira Kirkman. James
Jeffreys. Luther McGibbony. W. E.
Truitt. Harrison Apple. Otis B. Cable,
Victor M. Johnson. Shelton GrifP.6,
Charles G. Clapp. John McCulloch.
Francis D. Richardson. Harper Law.
Wilbert F. Minor. Charles Coley, Roy
Anderson. Pinkney Gordon, William
Arthur Fryar, Clarence O. Hutton,
Arthur Crutchfield, Sidney S. Robin-son,
Arthur B. Marley, Harrison
Rumbley. Samuel Waynick. Charlie
F. Shore. Willard R. Atkins. Jack R.
Lowe, Ernest Pearson. William T.
Dixon, Robert S. Dick, James A.
Poole. Riley Shoe, Sam Moore. Jacob
Tickle. Charles A. Coble, William W.
Pegg, Manish In man, David C. More-head.
Ernest C. Shaw. Jesse E. Wade.
Henry Enoch, Mayfield Vanhook.
Frank 'Cant, John K. Newman. Rob-ert
A. Hawkins. David A. Gray. Clyde
L. Waynick. Bud Greeson, Lawrence
Gilmer Ward, Banner W. Key, Wil-liam
D. Johnson, George F. Foots,
W. L. Ballard. Jesse L. Coitrane.
Clay D. Brittain, J. B. Gant. Elmer
F. Fishel, Samuel Thompson. Wal-ter
Duggins, Robert Rumbley. Rufus
A. Ingold. Oliver G. Friddle. Earl W.
Jones, Martin E. Frazier, Robert F.
Dean, Olin B. Belk, Dorsey L. Nance,
Galther M. Kellum. Cornelius Pier-man,
George Holman. James R.
Smith. Walter G. Coble, Galther C.
Welker, Charles G. Holy. Rufus
Foust, William B. Gray, Walter A.
Coble, Charles W. Coble, Edwin J.
Shepherd. Cyrus A. Brown, Thomas
R. Styers. Eugene Brown, Arlindo
Leonard. William L. Smith, Cecil C.
Field, Clyde G. Idol, Willie Sapp'and
Charles Clapp.
GIW4IS iRIBOMtt BACK
THE CROWN PRINCE MADE SIX
ATTEMPTS TO REGAIN LOST
GROUND.
London. Aug. 11.—Six times the
Bavarian crown prince sent his in-fantry
legion through the mud and
blood of the Flanders battlefield last
night to re-con-juer the lines lost to
the British yesterday. Six times the
teutons crashed against a wall of
steel and then they turned back in
flight, scattered and beaten.
"We hold all our positions." Sir
Douglas Haig reported in his day bul-letin,
"and in addition have gained
further ground in the neighborhood
of the Ypres-Menin road."
Eerlin's version U one of victory.
The British, aserts the German high
command, were beaten off every-where.
Of the six teuton counter-at-tacks
there is no mention. It is con-ceded
by the German war office, how-ever,
that French assaults further
south, on the St. Quentin front, were
"only partially successful." Of this
battle Paris reports that appreciable
progress was made by the poilus in
the region of Fayet. They wrested
from the crown prince's troops most
of the trench elements lost to them
Thursday and Friday. Below Laon.
also the French were victorious.
They recaptured in a brilliant charge
an important trench south of Allies
that had been previously snatched
from them in one oi the crown
prince's furious onslaughts.
In the Champagne. Paris admits
the Germans succeeded In gaining
fifty yards of a French trench. Their
initial momentum carried them
through on a much farther and wider
front, but Petain's men came back in
an embittered counter attack which
cleared all except the tiny strip of in-vaders.
Berlin reported the baegine of
nineteen entente airplanes and two
captive balloons in yesterday's fight-ing.
Most of the machines were
brought down in Flanders.
London. Aug. 11.—Optimism with
regajd-to the Russo-Rumanian situ-ation
was revived today by a official
report from Petrograd reporting sev-eral
brilliant local successes of King
Ferdinand's troops and their Musco-vite
allies.
Four . hundred prisoners were
taken by them in the southern part
of the Bukowina where they effec-tively
stopped the teuton advance.
to the southwest of Brody. in north-eastern
Galicia. Prince Leopold, of
Bavaria, also met a check. A vigor-ous
Austro-German drive in the sec-tor
of Zarkow was stifled in its in-cipiency.
the teutons suffering heavy
losses according to the Russian war
office.
But gloomy news came from the
vital sector of the Rumanian front
where Mackensen is sweeping north-ward
to invade Moldavia and cut off
/arge Russo-Rumanian forces. Petro-grad
admitted a retreat for a dls-ance
of three miles southwest of Ok-na
and conceded also that the Russo-
Rumanian forces were thrown back
over the Suchitzar river west of the
Focshanit railroad. To the east of
that line the Austro-German troops
were defeated, losing 300 officers and
men in prisoners.
■ft "SAMMIES" FOR RUSSIA
A FEW THOUSAND AMERICAN'S
WOULD HAVE LITTLE EFFECT
ON THE 10.0O0.000 RUSSIANS.
'THE AMERICAN EAGLE"
IS CITED BY FRENCH.
Paris, Aug. 10.—Lieut. William
Thaw, of Pittsburgh, who is popu-larly
known in France as "The Amer-ican
Eagle," has again received a
citation. It reads:
"Lieutenant Thaw, who returned
to the front after recovering from a
severe wound, has never ceased to
give an example of courage and en-terprise.
He showed intelligent in-itiative
during a German attack by
landing in his airplane near a group
of French troops and giving them in-formation
that he had obtained by
flying low over the enemy's position.
This information enabled our troops
to avoid a possible surprise. Lieuten-ant
Thaw brought down an enemy
aviator on April 26 of this year, that
being his second aerial victory."
ATTEMPT TO BREAK RUSSIAN-LINE
PROVED TO BE FAILURE.
Petrograd. Aug. 11.—The Austro-
German attempt to break the Rus-sian
line near Zarkov, southwest of
Brody. northeastern Galicia. met
with complete failure, says the offi-cial
statement from the war office
today. Elsewhere on the front there
has been little activity except in Ru-mania.
In the upper Bobra valley the Rus-sians
were driven back slightly
southwest of Ocna, in Rumania, near
the Transylvania border, stubborn
fighting took .place Thursday, the
Rumanians being forced to retire
I Kansas City, Aug. 10.—Dr. C. W. somewhat. The Austro-German of-
Soldicrs Exempted From PoU Tax. [ Maynard, a bacteriologist of Pueblo, tensive around Fokshani forced the
Sanford, Aug. 11.—The Lee coun- Colo., today notified Fred Robertson, [ Russians to retire across the Such-ty
commissioners at their meeting United States district attorney of (itza, but much heavy fighting has oc-this
week passed an order exempt-, Kansas, at Kansas City, Kan., that he ' curred there, especially east of the
ing from poH tax all who enter the | had found tetanus germs ln a brand . railway running north of Fokshani
service of their country as soldiers of court plaster circulated in Colo- where 300 teutonic prisoners were
during the term of the war. rade. I taken.
Poisoned Plaster Found in Colorado.
Washington. Aug. 10.—'Emphatic
disapproval of the suggestion that
American troops be sent to the east-ern
front was brought home by all
except one of the members of the
American mission to Russia.
It was authoritatively stated to-night
that Charles Edward Russell
is the only commissioner who be-lieves
it desirable to put soldiers
from the United States in Russia and
chat the others are convinced that
their presence would be detrimental
rather than helpful to the armies of
the new democracy.
Elihu Root and his associates on
the mission lunched with Secretary
Lansing today and told him more of
their experiences and conclusions.
Their written report, submitted to
President Wilson yesterday probably
will not be made public.
Organization and encouragement
and not men, it was explained to-night,
are Russia's needs in the opin-ion
of the majority of the commis-sioners.
With ten million men un-der
arms, they think Russia does not
need a few thousand strange soldiers.
Speaking an unfamiliar tongue,
drawing better pay and eating better
food than her own men.
Lending assistance to the men now
in the field is the duty of this country
the commissioners feel. Rolling stock
for the rialroads to carry supplies
and equipment to the native soldiers
and the supplies themselves are the
real requirements and they will
grow. Both Russian and Rumanian
forces will need supplies and equip-ment
worse next winter than they
do today and the transportation
problems then will be greater also.
Of the greatest importance the
-ommissioners say Is constant en-couragement
from citizens and the
newspapers of the United States. An-ti-
American propagandists, headed
by former residents of this country
and now financed by German inoney
ire seeking to paint Americans in
Che blackest shade and thus discour-age
Russians from accepting their
good offices.
The story of the origin of the ex-traordinary
propaganda is vouched
for by every member of the commis-sion.
Shortly after the outbreak of
the revolution, it is declared, the pro-pagandists,
composed chiefly of so-
-ialists favorable to abolishing all
present form of government and es-tablishing
without delay rule by the
brotherhood of man, returned to
their native land and began berating
the United States and its people.
Germans, quick to see the advant-age
of controlling these agitators, be-gan
supplying them with money and
today flush with wealth, they are.go-ing
through Russia spreading the
most vicious canards.
One of the commissioners, discus-sing
these men tonight, said he could
only explain their attitude before
coming into German money by their
never having become an integral part
of the United States citizenry. Many
of them, it is understood lived in the
congested foreign sections of New
York and seldom came in contact
with American citizens.
While the _propagandist« efforts
are being discounted now that Rus-sia
is becoming better organized,
they have instilled dangerous seeds
in the simple minds of many Rus-sians.
IN CONTROL OF FHD SOPPlT
PRESIDENT SIGNS THE SURVBT
AND REGULATORY BrLLS AND
NAMES HOOVER.
Washington, Aug. 10.—The Amer-ican
government today assumed con-trol
of the country's food supply with
the signing by President Wilson ot
the administration food survey and
regulatory bills.
Formal announcement of Herbert
Hoover's appointment as food admin-istrator
was made at the White
House soon after the measures were
approved and tonight Mr. Hoover set
forth the aims of the food adminis-tration
in a statement declaring its
purpose will be to stabilize and not
to disturb conditions.
Every effort will be made to cor-rect
price abuses made possible by
abnormal times, Mr. Hoover said, but
drastic measures will not be attempt-ed
until it is seen the purposes of
the administration cannot be accom-plished
through constructive co-ope-ration
with food producing and dis-tributing
industries.
The very existence ot correctivo
powers, Mr. Hoover ..declares, will
tend to check speculation and price
inflation.
The two measures signed today
give the government sweeping war
time powers. The regulatory bill is
designed to put food distribution un-der
direct government supervision
and a provision added as an amend-ment
extends an even more drastfo
government control over coal and
other fuels, including the power to
fix prices and authorizing the govern-ment
operation of mines. The sur-vey
bill is intended to encourage pro-duction
and gives the governmei.t
authority to keep up a continuous
census of the amount of foodstuffs in
the United States. It will be admin-istered
by the department of agricul-ture.
Both the food administration'"a?d
the agriculture department have
been ready since long before the bills
were passed to go ahead with the
work. The food administrator has
assembled a staff and already enlist-ing
the country's women in a house-hold
saving campaign. Meanwhile,
the federal trade commission, au-thorized
some time ago to conduct
an investigationTnto food prices sribh
special reference to anti-trust law
violations, is gathering information
which it will turn over to the two
agencies and to the department of
justice.
The first move to the food admin-istration
will be to bring about
changes in the system of distributing
wheat and in the manufacture and
sale of flour and bread. It will take
up next the production ot meat and
dairy foods. The trade commission
has Investigators now in the flour
mills and in the meat packing
houses.
FLAG IS CAPTURED •
BY ITALIAN MONKEY.
Rome. Italy, July 19 (by mail).—
.Monkeys can go "over the top" of a
battle trench as well as scale a hand
organ. Comes a tale from battle
rocked Carso in the Alps where a
monkey captured the Austrian colors
unaided. Bebe was the pet of an
Italian captain. Holding the line
against the Austrian*, the captain's
command faced an enemy position
from the top of which the Austrian
standard constantly flew.
Italian riflemen repeatedly brought
it down, but up it came again. Bebe's
master went out in the dead of night
to bring back the flag. The monkey
went with him. As the captain clear-ed
the1 last strand of barbed wire be-low
the Austrian parapet Bebe flash-ed
like a wraith over the top, tore
the flag from its staff and scooted
back. Both returned to the Italian
fnes safely. i
PHYSICIANS REPORT
MR. TAFT BETTER.
Clay Center. Kan.. Aug. 10.—Con-dition
of William Howard Taft, who
has been HI here since last Monday,
was improved today, according to his
physician. Dr. H. F. Morgan, for the
first time ln three days the ex-presi-dent
was given food. He had previ-ously
refused to eat. asking that he
be allowed rest and quiet. He is suf-fering
from intestinal trouble. "I
can't say the danger mark is pass-ed/'
said Dr. Morgan. "That would
not be exactly correct. However, I
don't think that at any time them
has been any immediate danger."
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